Done and Done! Gonna drop another $2k when the 2012 iMacs are released.

In all of my VMs (running ubuntu on fusion), I immediately install CCSM and Cairo dock. I then set the Unity launcher plugin to hide. Done. If I ever need to bring up the unity launcher, all I have to do is hit the apple key, not that I should ever have to. This leaves me with a nice dock and a global menu.

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04-16-2012, 03:43 PM

uid313

Clutter

Wonder if perhaps the Clutter toolkit would be good for a dock?
Any Clutter-powered docks out there?

A good design idea is still a good design idea even though it is implemented in proprietary code.

04-18-2012, 07:05 AM

Wingfeather

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ragas

A good design idea is still a good design idea even though it is implemented in proprietary code.

Damn straight.

04-18-2012, 04:58 PM

hoohoo

The thing is this: I got into UNIX/Linux/*BSD/X Window back in the late Windows 3.11 days. So over the next few years I found many of cool new UIs spanning the range from TWM simplicity to OpenSTEP's comprehensiveness.

Now, though, the greatest efforts and attention seem to go into duplicating the UI ideas of Microsoft and Apple. People are proud that they've duplicated things like this OS X knock-off start bar thingy.

I think people should be more proud of coming up with new better UI ideas though, or just putting out experimental work.

04-19-2012, 07:28 AM

uid313

Quote:

Originally Posted by hoohoo

The thing is this: I got into UNIX/Linux/*BSD/X Window back in the late Windows 3.11 days. So over the next few years I found many of cool new UIs spanning the range from TWM simplicity to OpenSTEP's comprehensiveness.

Now, though, the greatest efforts and attention seem to go into duplicating the UI ideas of Microsoft and Apple. People are proud that they've duplicated things like this OS X knock-off start bar thingy.

I think people should be more proud of coming up with new better UI ideas though, or just putting out experimental work.

The OS X dock is not invented by Apple, it was probably inspired by Sun Microsystem's Project Looking Glass which had a dock and is much older.
Unity is new-think, locally-integrated menus is new think, and GNOME 3 and KDE 4 has some new thinking. I've also seen other innovative original UIs on desktop environments of Linux and Unix such as hexagonal grids, pie menus, etc.